Baling-press



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A. WIGKEY.v BALING PRESS.

No. 487,503. Patented Dec. 6, 1892.

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A. WICKEY. BALING PRESS.

Patented Dec. 6, 1892.

III III' UNTTED STATES PATENT CEEICE ANDREW WICKEY, OF CHICAGO,ILLINOIS.

BALING-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 487,503, dated December6, 1892.

Application iiled February 26, 1892. Serial No. 422,887. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, ANDREW WICKEY, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inEaling-Presses, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a baling-press designed for the purpose ofbaling scraps of tin, sheet brass, copper, or similar materials, for thebaling of which the ordinary forms of presses used for hay, cotton, orthe like are not adapted. Materials of this sort may, if properlycompressed, be formed into bales which will retain their shape and holdtogether without the use of ties such as are necessary upon bales ofalmost any other material; and it is my obj ect, besides adapting thepress to the baling of said articles, to also enable it to compress themin such a way and form bales or blocks so bound together that they willhold without the addition of any other means for retaining them inshape.

To such end my invention consists in certain changes in the form,arrangement, and mode of operation of the press, which constituteimportant improvements in a Apress designed for use as stated above.

The preferred form in which my invention has been embodied isillustratedin the drawings by means of live figures, of which- Figure 1 is a sideelevation of the same; Fig. 2, a front view of a section taken in line 22 of Fig. l; Fig. 3, a detail view of the plunger or beater; Fig. 4, aperspective of the di- Vision-block, and Fig. 5 asection in line 5 5 ofFig. 4E. A

The press as thus shown is supported upon a solid frame A, provided withsuitable driving-gear B B B2. The gear here shown is of a well-knownform, and of course could be replaced by any other driving mechanismthat might be desired. At the left in Fig. l and supported by the sameframe is the balechamber C, constructed after the fashion of what areknown as perpetual bale-chambers, and are almost universally employed atthe present day in baling-presses. In these balechambers, it is hardlynecessary to state, the resistance which enables the plunger to compress the material is furnished by the friction between the sides ofthe chamber and the bale, and said chambers usually converge slightlytoward the end from which the bales are continuously ejected. The sidesof the bale-chamber shown here are held together by means of springsc toenable them to yield slightly in case of unusual strain. Thisbalechamber at its upper end terminates in a hopper D, into which thescrap-tin or other material is thrown by the operator. Above this hopperis seen the plunger or beater E, which is preferably a massive iron orsteel block having a downwardly convex face e and guided in a verticalline by means of a rod D', upon which slides an eye e2, formed in aprojection upon the plunger. The rod D' is strengthened by means of abrace d. While this method of guiding the plunger is thought to be thebest, there are of course many others which might be substituted.

Pivoted to the wheel or Wheels B2 by means of a pin fis a pitman F,pivoted at its opposite end by means of a pin f to a walkingbeam G. Saidbeam is itself fulcrumed upon a pin h, supported by an oscillatingstandard H, pivoted to the frame of the press at h. The walking-beam isalso pivoted to the plunger at e. This method of supporting the fulcrumh of the walking-beam allows it to accommodate itself to the verticalmotion of the plunger E. As the tin is fed into the press, the plungerE, traveling up and down, forces it downward into the bale-chamber, andsaid plunger is, as before stated, rounded upon its under surface, andis also considerably smaller than the cross-section of the bale-chamber.This causes it to pound the central portion of the tin down,and as thescraps are usually of considerable length the ends will be left stickingupward about the plunger. When enough tin is in the press to form abale, a divisionblock K is placed upon it. This divisionblock has adownwardly-concave surface, the edges thereof extending downward in theform of anges, and as these flangesA are placed upon the ends of the tinwhich have been left sticking upward about the plunger and the plungerthen brought down upon the division-block, said ends are forced togetherin a tangled mass and firmly bind the bale with sufficient strength toretain it in shape without the addition of ties or other means forholding it together.

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of the compression-chamber and a divisionblock concave upon its forwardsurface, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with the frame of a baling-press, of a plunger'having a convex face smaller than the cross-section of thecompression-chamber and a division-block having forwardly-projectingflanges about its edges and a Ahole in its back adapted to receive therounded plunger, substantially as described.

ANDREW VVICKEY. l/Vtnesses:

H. BITNER, C. P. SMITH.

